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Follow the trail of general debauchery and complete and utter murder and mayhem.  Reviews of top horror movies. Reviews of albums by top heavy metal bands. 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Not that I provide my angry nerd rants for money, but I have found another platform where the possibility at least exists and it is ad free!

Steemit is amazing, it is hip with the crypto kids, I can post in markdown (which I do mostly anyway) and it seems that there&#39;s less of an agenda there than on </atom:summary><link>http://necrofiles.blogspot.com/2018/02/google-sucks-piles-im-moving-to-steemit.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Garg Unzola)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19361141.post-4749265554003322940</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2017 07:49:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2017-06-08T08:49:32.642+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">anarchism</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">anarcho-capitalism</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">capitalism</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">private property</category><title>Private property is theft, personal property is fine</title><atom:summary type="text">That awkward moment when reality meets your ideology. Some anarcho-communist is having a fanny wobble because informal settlers got evicted in Newtown. But wait! Anarchist communism doesn&#39;t approve of private property, only personal property. So on what grounds does anyone have the right to reside anywhere?


Property is theft

You may ask: &amp;nbsp;Isn&#39;t this maxim a bit of a wank?



Let&#39;s try to </atom:summary><link>http://necrofiles.blogspot.com/2017/06/private-property-is-theft-personal.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Garg Unzola)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlywlbpIa7UkXv3w10uvzVm6RCTZWGtmcFr1bWYiuU8JkMMfKdi8BgnX8S-dBZlN913HhRlUtRdPeekebj1lmPulTdnFlttyCJX76R1xvmUIuUFwZvcaaL3D6fYcafNqO5UzOn/s72-c/vespa+militare.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19361141.post-1474705230178876347</guid><pubDate>Sun, 23 Apr 2017 08:58:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2017-04-23T10:19:16.521+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">biology</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">fauxtrage</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">game theory</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">kin selection</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">media</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">outrage</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">social media</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">twitter</category><title>Why has outrage come to dominate platforms like Twitter?</title><atom:summary type="text">This question was posted on twitter by Sarah Britten Pillay. I shall try to answer that here, or at least address some of the topics surrounding this notion.






What makes a platform like Twitter more outrageous than the next?

A brief summary of my thoughts on the topic:


It would be interesting to contrive some outrage meter that could detect outrage levels in a piece of text.
Plenty if not</atom:summary><link>http://necrofiles.blogspot.com/2017/04/why-has-outrage-come-to-dominate.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Garg Unzola)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5tg57WbTQViPf2YloPBgn5fKM8dCKYG1hBnmxcG3RsfrNVz9dpgKYymJ3uJBV59sihhcJWWgkZgYZnLCSezq5ybkBzAWSuAAyADe9jggbWkFK4kkT20mMgAJl9gkR0khxH7BT/s72-c/Capture.PNG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19361141.post-561848285495766908</guid><pubDate>Thu, 20 Apr 2017 09:18:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2017-04-22T11:50:54.823+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">abuse</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">fake news</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">feminism</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">huffington post</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">media</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">post truth</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">renegade report</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">shelly garland</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">verashni pillay</category><title>Shelley Garland: a case study of post truth media</title><atom:summary type="text">This past week saw a prank of Sokal Affair proportions, only within the context of our own ailing media. You can read the entire Shelly Garland saga here, and I would be completely over it by now if it weren&#39;t for the fact that the Huffington Post tried to wiggle their way out of this one by means of Spanish Inquisition.






Background to the Shelly Garland saga
A blogger passed around some </atom:summary><link>http://necrofiles.blogspot.com/2017/04/shelley-garland-case-study-of-post.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Garg Unzola)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeq6-TcqhpVmkVO3UsWcpxsEnt9kfGg7JS5grVjI1t2BwfqM-cqzCS5sCLIp8WpL44GGBsaQC6fMHSSyIjpch8DIztA8u7TEmZ7ptcSBkK4ORFHwythRh2UdaZ3VNkTJVxl86A/s72-c/th+%25282%2529.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19361141.post-3049749868281791982</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2016 17:48:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2018-02-03T12:00:42.176+00:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">basket of deplorables</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">conservative</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Donald Trump</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Hillary Clinton</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">progressive</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">US election</category><title>Fist bump the Trump</title><atom:summary type="text">





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After this weapon of mass media hysteria didn&#39;t fend off the infection, Trump was a superbug. He could just wing it willy-nilly, hapless, incompetent, blundering </atom:summary><link>http://necrofiles.blogspot.com/2016/12/fist-bump-trump.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Garg Unzola)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19361141.post-5136577919172654422</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2016 19:30:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2016-10-27T12:02:30.893+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">epistemology</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">fees must fall</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">gaze</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">orange gaze</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">postmodernism</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">science</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">science must fall</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">science wars</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">woo</category><title>The Orange Gaze: Science must fall due to discriminating gravity</title><atom:summary type="text">By now, every Robert and his mother&#39;s brother have seen the Science Must Fall video. Before anyone hurls abuse at the unfortunate souls who expressed these views, it should be noted that these views are not the result of uneducated minds or the legacy of Apartheid which left the majority of our population with an inferior school system.






The bitter irony is that these views originated within</atom:summary><link>http://necrofiles.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-orange-gaze-science-must-fall-due.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Garg Unzola)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-GyrJOYMcogjvRdrAoeOVp0_eHHCyLJ3ruO3WsYTgIGY0ZY5Ax65T-NNZxYYrKUj2ZqVLJAJ0GqTsV29uUAY3LENuie6JEPpkDzRiyjDCYEP1XeoAN7leF4u7MFWErL_fqfcT/s72-c/decolonizeYourMind.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19361141.post-386424784038609821</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2016 11:07:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2016-05-30T08:48:21.141+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">fascism</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">middle class guilt</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">regressive left</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">rhodes must fall</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">slacktivism</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">white privilege</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">white tears</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">white tip</category><title>White tears the most valuable currency but not as valuable as fauxtrage</title><atom:summary type="text">This formerly glorious publication which I shall not even bother naming has also fallen into the habit of censoring its comments section, at least when it comes to white tears. Fortunately, I could still save this obviously far superior comment from the rather myopic agitprop from whence it came. I know it is superior because the quality of your commentary is inversely proportional to how long it</atom:summary><link>http://necrofiles.blogspot.com/2016/05/white-tears-most-valuable-currency-but.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Garg Unzola)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19361141.post-7815408206568570466</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2016 15:35:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2016-04-19T16:35:53.750+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">assholes</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">cell c</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">company</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">feminism</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">glass ceiling</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">outrage</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">sexism</category><title>Cell C supports gorgeous women doing things to men at a company</title><atom:summary type="text">Finally, someone admitted it. What gorgeous women do to men at a company. Nobody hires women to do actual work. It&#39;s true. We just put up with your lovely kind in the workplace, despite the adverse effects you have on us when we perform actual work like scheduling golf club and strip club meetings.

We put up with you, the fairer sex, when you&#39;re clever - but not too clever, and gorgeous - but </atom:summary><link>http://necrofiles.blogspot.com/2016/04/cell-c-supports-gorgeous-women-doing.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Garg Unzola)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19361141.post-2595859790810446280</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2015 19:04:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2015-12-16T19:15:29.316+00:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">ANC</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">apartheid</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">bullshit</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">middle class guilt</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">wankery</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">white guilt</category><title>White wine? No thanks, I prefer red I must be racist</title><atom:summary type="text">As you know by now, I love shooting fish in a barrel. There&#39;s plenty of fish in the #WhiteWhine – A 12-Point Rant&amp;nbsp;post.&amp;nbsp;I&#39;ll just repeat the points here and scoff at them one by one:


The time has come for a 10-point dressing down of white South Africans who bitch and moan about everything. Let’s call it #WhiteWhine.



That&#39;s not really making a point now is it?



Many white South </atom:summary><link>http://necrofiles.blogspot.com/2015/12/white-wine-no-thanks-i-prefer-red-i.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Garg Unzola)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19361141.post-4826327633525104038</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2015 15:56:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2015-05-29T08:03:19.202+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">diversity</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">equality</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">ethnic diversity</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">feminism</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">interspecies romance</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">stereotypes</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">women</category><title>The first African Disney princess is not even Black</title><atom:summary type="text">If the peanut gallery is to be believed, the first African Disney princess is a white colonial. 

Why should we make a big fuss over the demographics of Disney princesses in this age of non-racialism and trying really hard not to perpetuate stereotypes? The article is helpful in prescribing our concerns to us:



The Disney Princess franchise doesn&#39;t have a history that celebrates diversity.
</atom:summary><link>http://necrofiles.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-first-african-disney-princess-is.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Garg Unzola)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19361141.post-518581207753498608</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2015 11:32:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2015-01-11T11:33:43.168+00:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">extremism</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">freedom of speech</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">islam</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Mohammed</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">press freedom</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">values</category><title>Response to the Muslim Judicial Council</title><atom:summary type="text">Following the barbaric attack on a bunch of nearly retired cartoonists in France, it is inevitable that Islamophobia would rear its head again. There&#39;s also this half-baked, watered down and not really helpful comment from the Muslim Judicial Council. They&#39;re not really doing a good job to help the rest of us discern between Muslim extremists and moderate Muslims. This comment has been deleted </atom:summary><link>http://necrofiles.blogspot.com/2015/01/response-to-muslim-judicial-council.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Garg Unzola)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19361141.post-3006319715404431320</guid><pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2014 12:57:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2018-02-08T19:20:25.381+00:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">activism</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">banking</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">deep ecology</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">economics</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">finance</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">gaia hypothesis</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Katy Perry</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">net worth</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">revolution</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Russell Brand</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">simplex communication</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">system science</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">trews</category><title>Russell Brand and the Messiah Simplex</title><atom:summary type="text">Moved to Steemit. Read it here:

Russell Brand and the Messiah Simplex</atom:summary><link>http://necrofiles.blogspot.com/2014/12/russell-brand-and-messiah-simplex.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Garg Unzola)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19361141.post-2993417488353296158</guid><pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2014 13:29:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2020-10-26T09:05:47.810+00:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">activism</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">commodification</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">hipsters</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">slacktivism</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">social grooming</category><title>The Commodification of Activism</title><atom:summary type="text">The commodification of activism is a term I&#39;ve coined to describe the popular culture phenomenon whereby everyone who creates awareness for their personal bugbears considers themselves an activist.





&amp;nbsp;I&#39;ve since moved my blog to Steemit. This is just kept here to verify the date and to invite you to read more on a more decent blogging platform, built on a blockchain, opposed to censorship</atom:summary><link>http://necrofiles.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-commodification-of-activism.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Garg Unzola)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvSZw93hz4Dzy7gds7HH4cQXq9QCeVCIEAP0_7q3VIrhtrLzj9E7pMF2Wv2vuh93Eh5MR21GlHhEYNt7qcvP3SKdDn3dBr59QinKSh5de82VDdsWCxMs7g74T9K19D0gysfmyL/s72-c/likedAndSharedSlacktivist.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19361141.post-5878897005931267628</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 18:24:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-02-16T18:54:12.959+00:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">bildungsphilister</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">communism</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">economics</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">enlightenment</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">hipsters</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">resource based economics</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">scientific socialism</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">social engineering</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">socialism</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">zeitgeist</category><title>The Resource Based Economy mind virus</title><atom:summary type="text">We&#39;ve seen the Zeitgeist films and sadly they&#39;re still taking a hold on impressionable young minds that could be doing something useful instead. Despite its shoddy research, its baseless assertions and its gross generalisations (or perhaps because of them), a few things about the films stand out:


We have to get rid of all monetary systems.
The answer to all our woes is a Resource Based Economy.</atom:summary><link>http://necrofiles.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-resource-based-economy-mind-virus.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Garg Unzola)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1GIHoIfdXiudGSf4L78ibhTywI15wlL77XfX9Aonwo-JXcXqbX6epM1kfQuJ8kZXDe45ByFuH3yxrpvnDhBq7141Jfbof6BtB5BdIbGox3DZDK0BOKxWuLm7b3j-_mGYmAss8/s72-c/Zappa_16011977_01_300.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19361141.post-6965012284108321762</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:34:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-11-14T18:37:52.142+00:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">assholes</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">bullshit</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">etolls</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">gfip</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">government</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">kleptocracy</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">naaiers</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">poepholle</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">sanral</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">taxation</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">theft</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">thieves</category><title>Open letter opposing etolls</title><atom:summary type="text">This is my letter of complaint regarding the etolls. I decided to replicate it here because I received no acknowledgement that my letter has in fact been received. Government seems hellbent on rubberstamping this bullshit through, so I am merely putting this out there so they can&#39;t act surprised when they sit with the tax revolt and the civil disobedience when they try to go through with this </atom:summary><link>http://necrofiles.blogspot.com/2012/11/open-letter-opposing-etolls.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Garg Unzola)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19361141.post-5302760374360315940</guid><pubDate>Sun, 26 Aug 2012 11:08:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-08-26T12:09:19.167+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">commodity money</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">currency</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">debt</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">economics</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">fiat money</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">money</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">resource based economics</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">venus project</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">zeitgeist</category><title>Money versus &#39;Resource based economics&#39;</title><atom:summary type="text">There&#39;s still mass confusion ruling in the midst of the Zeitgeist movement and the Venus Project zealots. The Zeitgeist movement thinks we do not need money because a fraction of the monetary system we currently have is fractional reserve banking, while the Venus Project thinks it&#39;s easy to do a bit of finely tuned central planning and cater for everyone&#39;s subjective evaluation of goods and </atom:summary><link>http://necrofiles.blogspot.com/2012/08/money-versus-resource-based-economics.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Garg Unzola)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19361141.post-7677245108433925707</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 18:28:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-06-25T19:28:41.813+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">adolf hipster</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">avastar</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">avatar</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">cape town</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">cocktail</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">gauteng</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">las vegas</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">pop culture</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">reverse psychology</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">zen</category><title>An open letter to an open letter to Mike Basson of Avastar</title><atom:summary type="text">This is an open letter to an open letter to Mike Basson (owner of Avastar). Avastar is a new club that is built around the idea of emulating theme clubs on the Vegas strip. I haven&#39;t been there, but I couldn&#39;t help but notice how the owner did a great job at marketing his venture through social media, particularly with an Avastar Youtube video.

You would gather from this blog that I am a big fan</atom:summary><link>http://necrofiles.blogspot.com/2012/06/open-letter-to-open-letter-to-mike.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Garg Unzola)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdgXdy0QT0O-Gdz2VnicKRMqKINqTdKmVsFJLMkf-R5huZUMQG-18-GVlve_FSLMNgMze7_3MxOZCZF0dEvmFYxAc0wDu_ZGhR4o62U6OkddmlN21PxbNrEr4km1vXVRyYeYCc/s72-c/adolf-hipster.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19361141.post-5299812276440030885</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 18:05:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2021-06-15T07:24:00.415+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">beer</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">eugenics</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Francis Galton</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Gossett</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">guinness</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">normal distribution</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">statistics</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">t-distribution</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">zeitgeist</category><title>Drinking doesn&#39;t solve problems?</title><atom:summary type="text">As part of the techlash I&#39;m moving away from Big Tech autocracies with their social justice tyranny, so catch me over at Steemit.&amp;nbsp;Drinking doesn&#39;t solve problems?</atom:summary><link>http://necrofiles.blogspot.com/2012/05/drinking-doesnt-solve-problems.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Garg Unzola)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19361141.post-3196093702690023961</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 08:15:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-05-15T08:52:13.944+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">boer</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">hegemony</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">ideology</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">january masilela</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">louis botha</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">pretoria</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">South Africa</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">steve biko</category><title>Pretoria is Pretoria</title><atom:summary type="text">
I don&#39;t particularly care what you want to call a street. All I know is each time the Pretoria municipality (I am uncertain of its name at this stage) tries to change names, they&#39;re upsetting enough people to such an extent that there is legal action.





Some Boer commando that apparently never happened in South Africa. 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This is part of why my knee-jerk reaction to the sophistry that rape in South Africa is perpetuated by the usual suspects of patriarchy, men&#39;s sexist attitudes and the terrible Protestant capitalist upbringing forced upon us - not to mention that age old scapegoat The Media and its photoshopped princesses - is </atom:summary><link>http://necrofiles.blogspot.com/2012/04/sexual-violence-against-women-in-south.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Garg Unzola)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2s85Hh1yE0lxxWWHzPV-b0DrgENYucOz8Nmkrm6oXKzfouBa-Jms7lFapAvgWV2muHkkfP8mKie7aSLw1hwRtnmr7jUTf2U_Eg0RnIno2BNZiGDveq7bYis8NUE3FjBHKSUIA/s72-c/how_sexist_am_I.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19361141.post-790083945361130493</guid><pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 18:17:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-02-19T19:00:18.203+00:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">beer</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">bell curve</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">collectivisim</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">economics</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">income distribution</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">occupy</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">private property</category><title>For Whom the Bell Curve tolls</title><atom:summary type="text">I&#39;ve been procrastinating with debates of a rather dismal level. Some of my trolling efforts may be witnessed at the Occupy South Africa or Operation Ubuntu facebook page. It turns out there are a handful of dyed in the wool NOT reds who are spawning Occupy protest pages at a rate that would almost have gullible people believe that there&#39;s a massive uprising in the country.What does equitable </atom:summary><link>http://necrofiles.blogspot.com/2012/02/for-whom-bell-curve-tolls.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Garg Unzola)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9Yb4VBwqQa8vqjWMV9e2SkAsuPm61CwWMh32N4BcuBchgd5oRYp-PbrX6UuMxiFF8lPF-2kfo0ycLyG5COiOxQyC3bM3liUGgOnvxtSz0sYwkrHpRkMpsxuJwd_Sb3AhC9_8V/s72-c/Rolls-Royce_Silver_Shadow.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19361141.post-4495599295727248304</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:35:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-08-25T10:06:27.411+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">book</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">book club</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">cocktail</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">coffee</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">ebook</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">fight club</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">kindle</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">martini</category><title>Welcome to Book Club</title><atom:summary type="text">Welcome to Book Club.  Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You&#39;re the same decaying organic matter as everything else. Including books. Fight Club film poster. Admit it: You saw the film before you read the book.  You probably don&#39;t even know there is a book.The first rule of Book Club is:  You DO NOT TALK ABOUT BOOK CLUB!The second rule of</atom:summary><link>http://necrofiles.blogspot.com/2011/08/welcome-to-book-club.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Garg Unzola)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9y1txPom3OvMCjBF_E_66Vy-03RRyYM3qsWn_aKuz2U8rTsrXewSQTy3K4X9jd3irStxUOVm2aZ1vr02EueRXCkcHlpRqj_zrR2LsbR7NVEdPR3V8QOr1Lbv9elSayoUJR0ix/s72-c/Fight_Club_poster.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>3</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19361141.post-2950616674174270469</guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 07:34:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-06-17T09:45:43.647+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">albert einstein</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">gnome</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">heuristics</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Linux</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">microsoft</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">rant</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">ubuntu</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">usability</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">windows</category><title>Nerd rant: Gnome 3</title><atom:summary type="text">BackgroundI&#39;ve been a loyal Linux fanboy since discovering that it&#39;s free, fast, and runs on most older systems. I&#39;ve been less of a fanboy since being able to afford more modern hardware and attempting to do something other than playing mp3 or video files on my desktop computer, especially with the great job Microsoft did with Windows 7.Albert Einstein, who may have enjoyed Gnome 3. I do not.My </atom:summary><link>http://necrofiles.blogspot.com/2011/06/nerd-rant-gnome-3.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Garg Unzola)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3qcYqErvVd7fXyaPXQRktCfWHw2zzRyvuO_bdvnbM3gjCyPyR7HL5AcvtU-N_0helduL0iICMkZ1eMpXVcfaRo7qewPHOgQ6c578NXzD8YXyZu6747EnCGodLJtb3vJrRFHwW/s72-c/144px-Albert_Einstein_Head.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19361141.post-9217650022518855959</guid><pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 16:21:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-03-05T17:38:09.861+00:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">causation</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">karl marx</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">media tribunal</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">press freedom</category><title>Media Appeals Tribunal has fallen and it can&#39;t get up</title><atom:summary type="text">If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you’re misinformed. - attributed to Mark Twain.Since the last Media Appeals Tribunal update on this blog, the Press Council of South Africa held a few public hearings which are designed to garner the general public opinion on the role of the council. Public attendance was poor, as can be expected from any kind of </atom:summary><link>http://necrofiles.blogspot.com/2011/03/media-appeals-tribunal-has-fallen-and.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Garg Unzola)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtcOlDhAIA-nnCDutv7WQgGEVmfjoJyx5aN0R7m57ZHtnuE5D-6nfigTwoUZpbWxndepj9yAizj-vxZE_PGilYbV3bzyGeMve4h_RyIjw8xTmUy8vv-O_y5OwRPjwrt4Ud9PwR/s72-c/Mark_Twain.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19361141.post-4944417173927824933</guid><pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 13:07:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2017-06-05T15:10:46.940+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">elizabeth hurley</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">game theory</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">veronica cale</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">volunteer dilemma</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">volunteer&#39;s dilemma</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">wonder woman</category><title>Volunteer&#39;s Dilemma: Game Theory for Noobs</title><atom:summary type="text">The Volunteer&#39;s Dilemma in Game Theory is best described by a corny mathematics joke.

A mathematician, an engineer and a chemist are at a conference. They are staying in adjoining rooms. One evening they are downstairs in the bar. The mathematician goes to bed first. The chemist goes next, followed a minute or two later by the engineer. The chemist notices that in the corridor outside their </atom:summary><link>http://necrofiles.blogspot.com/2011/03/volunteers-dilemma-game-theory-for.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Garg Unzola)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrQAnYxcc7NxCbqgMReM_OfleNpKiKy0I8ODemkXVTW2U_LEu9i5Hc57bvjUsnw7I2YBHTJleHyhkOp-1_vXcCD1_uX7hZpes-cpuZCOlPTK4O4TQZTzmzacjRkmJ1j5z0LsR6/s72-c/Liz_Hurley_Cannes.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>2</thr:total></item></channel></rss>